Brewing in Beats: PostgreSQL module in Filebeat

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Filebeat module for PostgreSQL

The new Filebeat module collects, parses, and visualizes the logs created by PostgreSQL instances. It can parse both the error logs and the slow logs, which in the case of PostgreSQL, go into the same set of files. We’ve now got support for PostgreSQL in Filebeat, Metricbeat, and Packetbeat, so you can monitor not only the logs but also its health by collecting periodically metrics from the SQL server and the network traffic exchanged with the PostgreSQL server.

This module is currently scheduled to be released in version 6.1.

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New community Beat: Cloudwatchlogbeat

Created by @kkentzo, Cloudwatchlogsbeat harvests data from the AWS Cloudwatch Log Groups and ships them to Elasticsearch or Logstash. The log groups are periodically probed for new streams which are then polled for new events.The state of the beat is saved in a user-specified S3 bucket on a per-stream basis. This way, the Beat knows what is the last event that was harvested per stream and can resume its operation once restarted.